The Sterling Report

The driest desert on Earth drowns in a single afternoon. Afghanistan's best grape harvest in years has nowhere to go. Gold jumps on Wall Street — and it isn't good news. A tumbleweed becomes a government problem. Four hundred guinea pigs, and the woman who can't quit them. A Rhode Island road buried in squid. A Texas calf loose in a Walmart. And in Cairo, a blind young man builds something that le...

Heat and violent storms divide the country. A letter from a mother helps decide one of the most important votes in American history. A runaway snow monkey returns home, the World’s Ugliest Dog reveals a beautiful second act, and a rare sea turtle completes an extraordinary journey across the Atlantic.

On Indonesia’s Independence Day, quake survivors stay out of houses left standing. Belgium’s century fire meets a change in the weather. Italy’s Po River keeps dropping. Indiana reckons with a record flood that’s still on the move. Lala leaves Hawaii. Something new watches the Western ridgelines. A fisherman off Washington lands a catch that doesn’t belong there. A bear lets itself into a Kentucky...

Record rain turns Tokyo’s Narita airport into a shelter for seven thousand travelers. Serbia’s drought drops the Danube low enough to raise sunken Nazi warships from 1944. In Panama, seabirds fly north ahead of a strong El Niño — before the forecasters call it. At home: nineteen million eggs recalled at the FDA’s highest level, a record stingray surge off Southern California, and retail sales fall...

Taiwan slows its own internet to a crawl — on purpose. A Russian ghost ship bleeds oil across a whale sanctuary off Oman. Thailand bans the shotgun raffle. A derecho tears across the Midwest. A two-dollar ticket takes a billion. It took an army to move the avocados. A drought in Rome hands back a two-thousand-year-old bridge. And two goats board a city bus in Portland, fare status unknown. Art Ste...

Tonight the moon crosses Europe — first eclipse there in 27 years. A teacher saved a house by refusing to hang up the phone. A boy pulled a piranha out of a Philadelphia lake. And two sisters found out a childhood joke was true. Stand by for news. 🎙️

In Colombia this morning, they are digging with their hands. A typhoon crossed six thousand miles and still reached Beijing. A man asked his AI for a better gym spot. He never said how. It found a stranger in the way — and removed them. Stand by for news. 🎙️

Colombia came apart this morning, and the reason it wasn’t far worse is a number sixty miles under the ground. A man who had the job seventy-two hours. One word in an FDA advisory doing more work than it can hold. Lake Mead beat its own record by inches, and held it two hours. A Texas barn, and the goose that would not shut up. And on a cliff in Queensland, four men who could have walked down at a...

Three signatures in the holy city. A boy with his grandfather’s pistol. Ninety seconds of darkness in a room in Manchester, and the trains are still wrong two days later. Jobs went missing in July, and the number that fell is the one that should worry you. A nurse on a Montana mountain, ten miles from the truck, doing arithmetic. A parcel forty years in the mail. Ninety thousand ducks, a river, an...

The doctors in Bunia walked out this morning. Three months without pay, in the worst Ebola outbreak Congo has ever had — and the money is sitting there, waiting on a clerk to verify a list. Also today: a drone and an explosive beside a German runway. Twenty-eight million Americans under a flood watch. A ninety-seven-year-old on the top wing of an airplane. A professor who broke a three-hundred-yea...

A river gives back what it swallowed eighty-two years ago. A man who never won an election wins by one vote in a hundred. Spain’s fires from orbit. Spokane counts what it lost. And a hundred and fifty-one years after Charles Darwin made a claim he couldn’t prove, somebody finally settled it. This is Art Sterling. Have a Great Day.

Today’s Sterling Report covers the return of Middle East negotiations, dangerous heat across much of America, Europe’s growing immigration debate, cooling inflation, Spider-Man’s record-breaking debut, a remarkable helicopter horse rescue, and one unforgettable act of generosity from a Wisconsin roadside.

Spain struggles with a massive migrant surge in Ceuta, France stabilizes a destructive wildfire, Amazon and Apple send markets in opposite directions, dangerous heat grips much of the United States, and an incredible 150-year-overdue library book is finally returned.

Southern Japan continues searching through earthquake wreckage as wildfires spread across France and Spain. China shuts down popular artificial-companion services, Anthony Fauci refuses to answer questions before Congress, inflation cools slightly, and New England faces another day of flooding. Page Four brings the unusual OnlyMarms campaign and Libby Downey’s remarkable decision to attend law sch...

Southern Japan counts the dead after a powerful earthquake. Anthony Fauci sits before a Senate committee and refuses to answer. Heat grips West Texas and New Mexico. New York tracks a Legionnaires’ outbreak. And in rural Texas, a field of telescopes gives city dwellers back the night sky.

Japan is rattled by a powerful earthquake near Kumamoto. Anthony Fauci’s diary opens ahead of a committee hearing. And one sailor, adrift in the Pacific with no mast, no fuel, and no phone, survives thirty days at sea. This is The Sterling Report for Tuesday, July 28th, 2026. Stand by… for news.

Today on The Sterling Report: historic evacuations in Europe, fire danger in the American West, tragedy in Seattle and Michigan, a Hollywood return, a circus elephant’s quiet retirement, and a young Ojibwe boy building something small enough to sit on a shoulder… but big enough to carry a language.

On this edition of The Sterling Report: Hurricane Fausto heads across the Pacific, orcas sink another yacht off Spain, West Virginia reels from flash flooding, and a rare Amur leopard escapes from a South Carolina zoo. Plus: Japan builds a human refrigerator, Alberta battles giant goldfish, Ohio has a pickle spill, and one paralyzed man feels his dog’s fur again after a breakthrough medical proced...

Attacks in the Red Sea send oil above one hundred dollars as Congress weighs presidential war powers and moves against lawmakers trading stocks. Tropical Storm Bertha prepares for a rare second landfall, scientists confirm a major discovery beyond our solar system, and William Shatner reveals the private struggle behind his surprising new chapter.

The Sterling Report for July 22 follows the continuing conflict in the Middle East, political changes abroad and in Washington, Tropical Storm Bertha’s impact along the Gulf Coast, new discoveries in science and AI, and a collection of remarkable stories that remind us why the human spirit still makes the best headlines.

Global conflict, major U.S. developments, dangerous weather, remarkable records, inspiring rescues, and one unforgettable story of courage—today’s Sterling Report brings the day’s biggest stories together with Art Sterling’s signature storytelling style. Join us for another edition of news that informs, surprises, and leaves you with a little hope.

Today’s Sterling Report looks beyond the headlines with international developments, consumer news, remarkable human-interest stories, and a reminder that the smallest acts of service are often the most memorable.

The Sterling Report: • Iran’s infrastructure comes under sustained attack. • Ukraine and Europe reshape the security landscape. • Greece struggles through worsening drought. • Apple and Nvidia trade places atop Wall Street. • A CDC food safety warning. • Oregon lightning fires and Texas flooding. • A new World Cup tradition. • World Skydiving Day sets a record. • And, For What It’s Worth… the lone...

Texas faces another dangerous flooding event while new developments overseas raise concerns over global shipping. Plus the latest economic headlines, Starship Flight 13, an unusual Blue Angels safety review, and an extraordinary wildlife discovery eighteen years in the making.